From Sunnyside Post:
Jennifer Hiser’s college architecture project was a far cry from designing skyscrapers.
The Sunnyside Gardens resident, intrigued by the concept of urban farming, decided she would design and build a chicken coup instead. Shortly after completing her project, she decided to test it out.
Hiser has three hens, which she reared from the time they were just a day old. She named them Nugget (as in McNugget); Schmaltz (as in the type of chicken fat used by Ashkenazi Jews); and Poulet.
Hiser and her boyfriend, Peter Montalbano, also have a vegetable garden that is cordoned off from the chickens where tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, lettuce, beans and lavender are grown. There is also a compost heap as well.
5 comments:
Hey, "Vibrant and Diverse." What do you expect?
It might be their religion to raise chickens in order to sacrifice them.
Roosters are bad news, I have 2 Polish hens in Ridgewood. They are small, quiet, tame and dont cause problem.
I let the Puerto Rican neighbors have the eggs they no longer throw garbage in my yard and think the birds are good luck. Nobody calls the cops.
The law is very gray, it addresses **wild** animals, animals for meat cooped 25 feet or less from any "built up part of the city"
"Built up part of the city" ??
How can one enforce a law that is written so vague and divoid of any specifications at the time?
Would "Built up part of the city" mean Manhattan skyscrapers or some large dirt yard in Queens ?
I'd name my pigs "Bacon" and "Pork Chop." Wouldn't and couldn't keep them in the city though.
People keep pigeon coops in the city. No problems with hens... just roosters as previous poster noted.
Mem the guy on Arthur Avenue who used to drive a flatbed down midtown 34 St, cover it with bird seed, throw a tarp over the birds and sell them for squab?
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